“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el … 1856–1915

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

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Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

“With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.”

W. C. Handy (1873–1958) American blues composer and musician

“Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, — and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?”

James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author

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The Certain Hour (1916)

“I think, as with all things, honor is best appreciated in moderation. As is cruelty.”

Pierce Brown book Dark Age

Source: Dark Age (2019), Ch. 92: Graveyard of Tyrants; Lysander

“These are things I find enchanting and miraculous. I don’t have to be at the Grand Canyon to appreciate the way the world works, I can see that in reflections of light in my bathroom.”

John D. Carmack (1970) American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman

Referring to how he, after many years immersed in the science of graphics, had gained a stronger appreciation of the real world instead of getting detached from it, as he would see a few bars of light on the wall and think, Hey, that’s a diffuse specular reflection from the overhead lights reflected off the faucet, Quoted in David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Epilogue, p. 234.

“Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.ʺ I appreciated the support.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) American aviation pioneer and author

As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83
Cited as Amelia Earhart, "My Husband," Redbook magazine (Sept. 1933) in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989), p. 101.